The Rise Of Australasia-Chapter 1297 - 948 Infinite Submarine Warfare

Chapter 1297: Chapter 948: Infinite Submarine Warfare

Chapter 1297 -948: Infinite Submarine Warfare

In order to effectively counter any potential material replenishment to Germany from around the world, Britain-France-Australia, after sustained deliberation, finally decided to implement a rather overbearing policy, which is the unlimited submarine warfare policy.

The so-called unlimited submarine warfare policy is primarily aimed at using submarine attacks to effectively prevent external resources from being exported to Germany.

The range of unlimited submarine warfare covers the entire Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, and it can be said that the British were determined to eliminate any possibility of countries transporting resources to Germany.

Of course, such actions are bound to cause collateral damage.

Therefore, when promulgating this policy, Britain-France-Australia jointly issued a statement to all civilian ships passing through the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, requiring them to register with a dedicated agency of the Britain-France-Australia nations to avoid harm during submarine warfare.

This kind of statement is quite overbearing, signifying that all civilian ships of the nations along the coasts of the Atlantic and Mediterranean must be under the joint control of Britain-France-Australia.

However, the issue is that within these two bodies of water, aside from Britain-France-Australia, the only other powers that seem to have significant strength are the enemies of Britain-France-Australia.

The remaining neutral countries generally have weaker strength, and even if they have some grievances, they can only succumb to the dominance of the three-nation alliance.

Of course, if we look at the current world situation, the country most likely to be dissatisfied with such a policy is actually Brazil.

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Because the trade of other countries with Germany is negligible, their merchant ships simply need to register, and it generally would not affect the domestic economy.

But Brazil is different. Over one-third of Brazil’s current export industry is in collaboration with the Germans. Such a policy would severely hit Brazil’s export industry and significantly affect the domestic economy.

However, at this time, Britain-France-Australia were not worried that their actions might drive Brazil into Germany’s “war chariot.” In fact, for Australasia, if Brazil proactively jumped onto Germany’s “war chariot,” it would actually be a good thing, giving Australasia even more reason to declare war on Brazil.

The reason Australasia agreed to this obviously offensive policy was not only to attract Brazil to join Germany’s “war chariot” but also to force the Germans to take more active offensive actions through such restrictive policies.

Only if the Germans were driven to madness would the European battlefield become more intense. Only with a more intense offensive would the casualties of the nations increase further.

Although this might also lead to an earlier end to the war, it is believed that the Germans would undoubtedly not give up any chance to win.

The Germany of history was quite insane. With a population of just over 80 million, it managed to arm an army of over 18 million.

Based on the current scale of the German Army, it still has not reached the peak state of its military might.

Of course, the most exaggerated is currently Russia. According to the scale of casualties from World War II in history, Russians are very likely to arm an army exceeding 30 million.

Of course, this is somewhat forced. Even many of the so-called soldiers are just peasants and workers from other industries, hastily trained, donning their own military uniforms, maybe even stripping them from soldiers who have just died on the battlefield, taking up their own weapons, and rushing to the front.

Since the military sizes of the European countries have not yet reached their maximum values, Arthur did not mind adding fuel to the fire, urging them to arm their military forces to the greatest extent as soon as possible.

Soon, the time came to November 1937.

The unlimited submarine warfare did have its results, especially for Brazil, whose merchant ships heading to Europe were almost cut in half, which also means that the supplies potentially transported to Germany would also be reduced by half.

The greatest loss is probably borne by Brazil, but for any one of Britain-France-Australia, Brazil’s opinion is actually not that important.

For the current Britain-France-Australia, what they care about is how long this war will end and the division of post-war benefits.

Yes, even though the war is still raging fiercely, Britain-France-Australia have already started deliberating on the post-war division of spoils.

It is commonly known that war is just one form of diplomacy. No matter how the war situation evolves, the outcome always boils down to one thing: one side assimilating the benefits of the other.

For the current Britain-France-Australia who hold the naval superiority, the longer the war drags on, the greater their chances of victory.

Especially after the promulgation of the unlimited submarine warfare policy, Germany’s domestic supplies are doomed to fall short of the needs of the war. Britain-France-Australia can replenish their supplies through their vast colonies and international trade, but the Germans can only rely on their native land and the scant resources of their allies.

More importantly, Australasia has yet to use that powerful weapon on the European battlefield. As the Island Nation’s firsthand experience has shown, this weapon can effectively target the enemy’s large industrial bases and extremely large urban cities, as well as the densely stationed front lines of the army.

No matter how powerful the German Army is, it certainly will not be able to withstand this weapon for long.

This leads to the belief in the hearts of Britain and France that there is only one outcome to this war, and that is their ultimate victory.

Because of this, it is deemed necessary to discuss the division of spoils after the victory in the war.